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How camgirls are reclaiming porn
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with people she trusts, mostly without compensation, and sometimes for an audience. “In a way, [I’m] proud of it,” Puccho said. “If you’re really careful and don’t worry about it, it’s very empowering. It all depends on how much you care about how it affects you.” Though the economics of the camgirl industry vary from model to model, some performers can net as much as $1000 per day, the Daily Dot reported. Models can set pricing, duration of performance, and are generally in control of exactly what they do on camera. Of course, there are ways to exploit these people. “Warehouses” exist where multiple camgirls work out of the same location under management, and they can very easily be exploited. But just as other technologies allow us to take hold of our individual freedoms, the Internet has allowed women and men alike to make porn entirely on their own terms. And this raises a new question: does individual empowerment trump gender-wide utility? The answer is that it doesn’t really matter. Whether or not we like the idea of porn, it is an industry that has stood the test of time. And if women have found a way to subvert the abuses of the porn industry, then we should support them in any way we can. The ultimate feminist act is to reclaim an industry, has painted women as subservient. We should not vilify women for taking part in an industry historically considered anti-woman. We should support and empower all sex workers by allowing them to reshape the industry how they see fit.▪
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ike it or not, porn is a dominant cultural force. It has adapted to fit almost every format. It fit snugly into cinema, home video, and most recently the Internet. It has not only shown remarkable resilience, but ingenuity. Porn has directly contributed to everything from the use of Super 8 cameras to trailblazing online credit card payments. But for all its changes, some porn is also undeniably a cause of objectification. There’s no need to insult your intelligence by elaborating further — look at the titles of the most popular videos on PornHub if you don’t get it. Though feminist porn certainly exists, most major studio porn is shot with the intention of arousing men. “Major studio” is the key term, though. Social justice circles have been discussing whether or not feminists can enjoy porn, and whether or not it is ultimately harmful to women practically since “Deep Throat’s” premier. The arguments make sense. Close-up shots of genitals and breasts, as well as a focus on male ejaculation have become the typical porn model. There is no doubt that these images inform our views on sexuality. That conversation, though, is rapidly becoming dated for one simple reason: women have gained a massive foothold in the porn industry. Through camgirl modeling and individual production of amateur films, women are able to independently produce porn on their own terms. One model, who wishes to be known as Puccho, cams for people she meets online. After establishing a rapport with them, Puccho performs privately
This semester the Montana Kaimin broke the news on employees hurt by budget cuts, supported free speech under attack at Missoula high school, exposed your favorite porn trends and showed you the personal lives of Grizzly star athletes. Life at UM has been up and down this semester and the same is true for the Kaimin. We are journalists, photographers, designers and business majors, but more importantly we are UM students. We’re the kids sleeping next to you in math class, sprinting past you on the Oval and drinking garbage beer with you on the weekend. We love what we do so much we have taken pay cuts, worked for free and spent many sleepless nights in the campus newsroom to provide you the most diverse and accurate view of campus life possible. We are the only publication dedicated to covering what it means to be a student in Missoula, and holding campus leaders responsible to the people who pay their salaries. But we need your help, and we’ve been working hard to prove to you we deserve it. Last year we lost the dollar increase by four votes, but we didn’t give up. We moved to digital first, switched to a weekly color paper, cut staff salaries and jobs and focused more on the things that affect you. If we fail to get your vote again this semester, we will be focused on revenue instead of reporting. But imagine what we could do with your dollar. Just like ASUM Child Care, UM Productions and other student groups, the Kaimin is a crucial part of UM and has been for more than 100 years. Help us keep it going for 100 more. Until then keep reading, keep commenting and keep sharing. Vote yes on the dollar increase for your paper, the Montana Kaimin.
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Reinvest delivers list of demands to UM Foundation Erin Goudreau erin.goudreau@umontana.edu
Reinvest Montana gathered in the University Center on March 23 and demanded the UM Foundation call a re-vote on the issue of divestment from the fossil fuel industry. “We organize to take control of our futures and our lives,” Simon Dykstra said, while he stood in front of the UC Market with 20 other members of Reinvest Montana. “We stand with schools like the University of Washington, Swarthmore and Berkeley who have divested from the fossil fuel industry.” The other members of Reinvest held signs with the slogans “This is What Democracy Looks Like,” “We Have the Power” and “Help MT Thrive” on them. Reinvest Montana is a student-run group that formed three years ago and has been communicating with the UM Foundation for the past two years, working to convince the Foundation to divest from the fossil fuel industry. They have had nine formal meetings with the Foundation, many of which were with the Foundation’s fossil fuel subcommittee. Over the past two years, Reinvest has held rallies, gathered over 2,000 petition signatures in favor of divestment and passed a student-voted referendum in favor of divestment by 80 percent. “For two years, we’ve tried to go through the official, bureaucratic channels,” Shannon Curry, a member of Reinvest, said. “It hasn’t worked.” In September 2015, the UM Foundation voted unanimously against divesting from fossil fuels. On Wednesday, Reinvest marched to Brant-
Will McKnight / @WillMcK_Photo Members of Reinvest Montana march to the UM Foundation offices March 23 to deliver a letter demanding divestment. This is the last effort by the group to ask for divestment through administrative channels.
ley Hall, the location of the UM Foundation, and delivered a letter to Mack Clapp, chair of investment for the UM Foundation. The letter summarizes the history of Reinvest and their communication with the UM Foundation and provides a list of four demands. The first demand is that the UM Foundation immediately move to call for a re-vote on divestment, which would include divesting University assets from fossil fuel companies, freezing
new investments in fossil fuel companies and reinvesting five percent of that money into local, clean energy sources. The second demand is that the UM Foundation release a detailed report explaining the board of trustee’s vote against divestment in the fall of 2015. The third demand is that the Foundation release their holdings for the 2014 and 2015 fiscal years. Reinvest’s final demand is that Julie Baldridge remove herself from any future vote on divestment, citing Baldridge’s
ownership of the Kootenai Resource Corporation, an oil and gas exploration company, as a conflict of interest. If Clapp is unwilling to comply with the demands, Reinvest is prepared to engage in nonviolent direct action in early April, a possibility they are already preparing for by holding civil disobedience trainings. “This letter is the final institutional channel we are exhausting,” Dykstra said.▪
ASUM Senate candidate deadline extended Silas Miller silas.miller@umontana.edu
The number of Senate candidates for the Associated Students of the University of Montana increased to 25, up from nine. The lack of turnout right at the deadline to declare candidacy for 26 open spots triggered an extension until Friday, April 1. ASUM President Cody Meixner would like to see the amount of candidates double before the new deadline. “It would make for a more competitive election,” he said. Student elections will take place on April 27 and 28. This year, elected student representatives at ASUM oversaw around $2 million in paid student fee money, Meixner said. ASUM Election Committee Chair Sarah Smith said she would also like to see more students enter the race. “I’m optimistic that extending the deadline will turn out more candidates,” she said.▪
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house on Cleveland Street for a few days before things got weird. The back door she always locked seemed to open on its own, and the light in the unused storage room was notorious for flipping on when Werk wasn’t looking. Werk, 20, had four roommates, and the first days they spent in the house were filled with friends and booze, a finale to a summer spent partying before another fall semester at the University of Montana. Anyone could have unlocked the door to exit for a smoke break. Anyone could have found the storage room and taken a private tour. On this particular night, Werk was drained from a day spent floating the Clark Fork River. She didn’t have the energy to worry about ghosts. When Werk woke up on Aug. 24, 2015 at 3 a.m., a stranger was standing over her bed watching her. “My friend Stephanie used to live here,” the woman said to Werk when she opened her eyes. “I’m just checking the place out.” Still half asleep, Werk could only see the outline of the small woman, maybe 90 pounds, standing at her bedside. Werk tried to stay calm. Maybe this woman was a friend of her roommate’s. Maybe she was just a drunk, lost college kid. “Do you have an attic? I think there are people outside looking for me.” Werk drowsily pointed the woman in the direction of her walk-in closet, or maybe the bathroom, and explained that she had just moved into the house and didn’t know where the attic was. “Take a look around,” Werk said. “Let me call my roommate and see if he knows.” As the woman wandered into Werk’s bathroom, Werk called Blake Osborne, the only other roommate sleeping in the house that night, and begged him to come downstairs. Werk ran to meet him at the bottom of the basement stairs, starting to snap out of her sleepy haze. “What’s going on?”
“There’s someone in my room.” Osborne, 22, and Werk ran outside to call 911. Within minutes, Osborne said the Missoula police arrived with four patrol cars and five cops. After a full search through the house, complete with yelling and flashing lights, the cops came out empty-handed. They told Osborne and Werk the back door was open, so the woman must have escaped. Sleep was out of the question, so Werk called her mom to tell her the story. She advised her daughter to go into her room with Osborne and make sure the woman didn’t steal anything. Before the roommates could check inventory, the Missoula police called Werk and said they picked up a woman in the neighborhood who fit the description Werk had given after the failed search. When the cops showed up with the suspect, Werk hid behind a truck and got a good look at her. They had the wrong person. Osborne and Werk went back inside, preparing to go back into the basement. Osborne grabbed a spare shower curtain rod from the laundry room. “Just in case anybody pops out at me,” Osborne joked. He thought the house was safe. After all, the police had just searched the place up and down. With the lights on in Werk’s room, she and Osborne found that nothing was stolen, but all the sweaters in her closet had been thrown on the ground. There was a pair of someone else’s wedges at the end of Werk’s bed, and a scarf in the corner she had never seen before. Osborne glanced around the room before dropping to his hands and knees to look under the bed. Like a dad pretending to look for a monster but expecting to find nothing, he slowly lifted the bed skirt and peeked under, jolting as Werk screamed above him. When Osborne swung his head up from under the bed, he was face to face with a woman who looked “like a meth billboard times 10” coming out of Werk’s sheets, clawing at his face. Osborne’s first thought was to grab the woman and sit on her. It would have been easy. But as he pushed her away with the shower rod, he noticed the scabs and open wounds scattered across her arms and face. Osborne
decided to avoid touching her at all costs. Werk was already in the other room calling 911. After a short shoving match, the woman threw Werk’s laptop at Osborne, giving her time to kick out the screen of the window and crawl outside to escape. When the cops arrived again, they searched the house with Werk and Osborne, who found sunglasses and jewelry on the kitchen table next to a fresh glass of water. There was also a purse and jacket by the back door. “Is this stuff yours?” Osborne asked Werk. It wasn’t. In the purse, Osborne said the police found a small bag of meth, syringes and pill bottles with a woman’s name on them. Osborne said the police recognized the name and said she was a “known tweaker.” The police were unable to find the woman until she was caught stealing and arrested at Wal-Mart months later. One of the employees who caught her is a close friend of Osborne’s. Osborne said police also found holes drilled into the air vents of the house and a trash can tucked away in a cubby that held respirators, soldering tools and a red substance that smelled like sulfur — scrapings from match tips is a common ingredient in meth. They also found garbage and people’s belongings in the house’s crawlspace between the basement and main floor. That explained the voices Osborne and Werk’s roommate Kevin Curran heard but could never find when he was living in the house alone earlier that month. Police later told Werk the woman, like many meth addicts, probably returned to the house because she had done meth there in the past. As Werk would soon discover, meth hadn’t just been smoked in her house, it had been manufactured there. Werk had no idea her new, five-bedroom house was once host to a meth lab and, according to Montana law, her landlord had no legal obligation to tell her it was. It’s almost impossible to prove if Werk’s landlord knew about the meth contamination. Because of Montana’s haphazard laws regarding meth-contaminated properties, people all over the state are unknowingly living in homes that have toxicity levels hundreds and even thousands of times over the legal limit.
It’s these homes that go uncleaned and unnoticed for years that can cause serious harm. Werk and Osborne’s parents asked their landlord, John Hirsch, if there could have been a meth lab in the house. Osborne said the landlord seemed “freaked” by the accusation. Hirsch said even if he knew the house was contaminated with meth; there wasn’t much he could do for the tenants. Osborne’s dad immediately called Lee Yelin, president and founder of Water Rights, Inc., to test the house for meth contamination. Yelin has been sampling and cleaning meth-contaminated properties for years and his results have helped many families successfully pursue agencies that failed to disclose the presence of meth toxicity in court. When Yelin walked into the Cleveland Street house on Aug. 28, Osborne said he took one look around and determined the home was once a lab. “I can smell it and all the signs are here,” Yelin said according to Osborne. The test came back positive for 1.9 micrograms of meth per 100 square centimeters of surface material. The legal limit of meth toxicity allowed in a house in Montana is 0.1 micrograms per 100 square centimeters. Although Osborne and Werk’s house was contaminated 190 times the legal limit of meth toxicity, Yelin said this amount is rarely harmful.“I wouldn’t let my grandkid in there until I cleaned it and painted it,” Yelin said. “But that unit doesn’t scare me at all.” According to a 2009 study by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, meth toxicity in a home begins to affect people’s health at about 1.5 micrograms per 100 square centimeters, which is why 1.5 is the legal limit of toxicity in California. Yelin said many states have their limits set at 0.5 while others allow each county to decide their limits. Montana’s limit is set so low because the other laws around meth-contaminated homes are so lenient, Yelin said. But cleaning a meth contaminated home down to .1 micrograms of meth per 100 square centimeters is costly and unnecessary when meth toxicity isn’t harmful until 150 times that amount. It is also difficult to clean these homes, Yelin said, because he can’t legally use various chemicals and cleaners that other states can, including household bleach. Yelin said he and his crew usually use Dawn dish soap, and vinegar with steel wool to decontaminate a meth house.
When Osborne, Werk and their three roommates discovered their home was contaminated with meth, they found a new house and broke their lease with Hirsch. The five are in the process of suing their former landlord for their security deposits with the help of ASUM Legal Services, but they can’t sue him for leasing out a meth-contaminated home. “According to the law, if he is going to withhold any amount of our security deposits, he needs to give us a list of what the damages are and give us a 24-hour period to remedy those issues,” Osborne said. “He never did that or gave us any money back.” Although Yelin said many people are often successful in getting their money back — landlords would rather pay people to shut them up than deal with the $30,000 hassle of cleaning a meth-contaminated house — Osborne and Werk’s landlord probably won’t be charged for not disclosing that the house was toxic. According to Montana House Bill 60, if a property has not been deemed by a law enforcement agency as a meth lab, it does not have to be listed on the Department of Environmental Quality’s website that lists meth-contaminated homes in Montana. Even if the contaminated home has tested positive for meth, Yelin said the only agencies who have authority to put the property on the DEQ’s website are law enforcement. If a home is not on the DEQ’s list, the landlord does not have to tell their tenants the property has been home to a meth lab. Yelin said this includes close to 90 percent of all contaminated homes in Missoula County. House Bill 60 says a property owner shall “notify in writing, before agreement to a lease or sale of the property that is known by the owner to have been used as a clandestine methamphetamine drug lab, any subsequent occupant or purchaser of that fact if the property has not been remediated by a certified contractor to the standards established by the DEQ.” But if the house was never busted by law enforcement, or even if it was busted, but before 2005, it’s not on the DEQ’s list and it’s nearly impossible to prove that a landlord knew the property was once a meth lab. Once a home has been cleaned, it is removed from the DEQ’s list. Yelin said in most states, if a home tests positive for meth, it is shut down and boarded up until it’s cleaned. In many cases, Yelin said meth-contaminated properties will be rented out for years before it causes a problem. Meth has to be digested or dissolved through skin in order to impact a person’s health, so it rarely affects adults. “A lot of these properties are rented and
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Brian Walton/ @brian.waltonThe house on Cleveland Street in Missoula where tenants encountered a meth addict in their home. Police later found remnants of a former meth lab in a crawlspace above the basement.
everything is fine. It’s been 12 years since the bust, five different renters and everything is going along fine,” Yelin said. “Then somebody comes in with a toddler and the toddler gets sick. Everything goes in their mouths. That’s the only time we start hearing about these good lawsuits.” In one Montana Supreme Court case, a family moved into a new home that was busted as
“It’s a huge epidemic that everybody is ignoring.” Lee Yelin
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a meth lab in 2002. When the family discovered their home was a former lab, they moved out, left all their contaminated possessions behind and sued Lewis and Clark County law enforcement. Although the law enforcement agency legally didn’t have to put the home on DEQ’s website because it was busted before 2005, the jury ruled in favor of the family, awarding them almost $600,000 in restitution and damages.
Renters currently live in Werk and Osborne’s old meth-contaminated home, which is not on the DEQ’s list of toxic homes. Yelin said the biggest issue with Montana law is that homes where meth has been smoked out of foils and pipes over a long period of time are not reported and listed on DEQ’s website. Those homes are some of the most toxic, yet only former meth labs are reported. “Until we start putting the properties where people smoke on the list, we’re never going to get a handle on this,” Yelin said. “We don’t see as many labs in Montana because most people are buying it and bringing it into the state as opposed to making it.” Yelin said the most toxic home he has ever tested was just off Russell Street and had 365 micrograms of meth per 100 square centimeters. That’s 3,650 times the legal limit. That home is still not listed on DEQ’s website. “It is a huge epidemic that everybody is ignoring,” Yelin said. Meth cases prosecuted in Missoula County are up 15 percent from 2014, and 137 percent from 2013, according to the Missoula County Attorney’s Office 2015 report. Jason Marks, chief deputy county attorney, said the obvious reason there are more meth cases in Missoula is because of the increase in availability of meth in the community. Although the recent effort to stop production of meth in the U.S. was largely successful, Marks said the drug is now being trafficked into the country. “Now we have a flood of meth coming in from Mexico,” Marks said. “The regional Task Force is very focused on this issue, which is
why we’re seeing a lot of cases.” While many adults living in meth-contaminated homes remain unaware and unharmed, Osborne and Werk were not. Werk said she woke up in terrors thinking someone was in her room for most of fall semester. She would turn her lights on and search her entire bedroom. Osborne said Werk still won’t do laundry in the basement unless another roommate is home. “As soon as the case is over,” Osborne said, “I’m going to make sure everybody in this valley knows that landlord’s name and knows what a shitty person he is, because he rented that house back out after he knew it was a meth lab, and we know he didn’t do the mitigation necessary to clean it up.” But Hirsch said he did clean the house. After Osborne and his roommates left the house, Hirsch said he paid thousands of dollars to have the home decontaminated before leasing it to the current tenants. He did not provide documents to confirm this. Hirsch also said he feels badly about what happened to the students and agrees that Montana’s meth laws need to be changed for everyone’s sake. “It certainly is a horrific problem,” Hirsch said. “There are some challenges and things that certainly need to be addressed on how it’s treated. It affected me miserably as well, between the thousands of dollars and a lot of heartache and sleepless nights.” Osborne still hasn’t gotten his security deposit back, though, and said he thinks Hirsch assumes Osborn, Werk and their roommates will eventually give up the fight. ▪
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Finding an identity Johanna Bernhard johanna.bernhard@umontana.edu
The Pengelly Double Dip half marathon wasn’t enough for Milton Zhinin-Barreto. After 13.5 miles and an elevation gain of 2,700 feet, Zhinin-Barreto wanted to do it again. Feeling a second surge of energy and enticed by free Big Dipper ice cream given to those who double, Double Dip, that’s exactly what he did. This year he will run it again. Three times. Themed runs across Montana are growing in popularity. From the Color Run and the Dirty Dash in Missoula to Huffing for Stuffing in Bozeman, more people are getting involved. Although numerous runs have entry fees, students are willing to pay for the experience. Others are not. Money is not an issue for Zhinin-Barreto. He doesn’t lead a stereotypical student lifestyle of going out every weekend and eating out. In fact, he doesn’t go out at all. The money he saves, he spends on long distance races across the Northwest, he said. Five years ago, Zhinin-Barreto couldn’t run around the block. He had never practiced
a sport and hated exercise. He wanted to get fit and thought running would be the cheapest and easiest way to do so. He was also divorced. At 30, he was searching for an identity. When someone asked him what he did, he didn’t want to give the generic answer of “I’m a student.” He wanted to be something more compelling. So he started running. In 2013, Zhinin-Barreto was running four or five miles a day. A fellow runner mentioned the Fat Ass 50K in Helena, but Zhinin-Barreto had no idea of the distance. He lied and said he could run 12 miles, so the person told him to sign up for Fat Ass. He signed up with no understanding of the distance he would run. “After 12 miles of running, I thought ‘what the heck am I doing here,’” Zhinin-Barreto said. “But people were cheering, so I kept going.” He finished fourth. In July 2014, Zhinin-Barreto ran the Bryce 100 in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. He finished sixth. In Sept. 2015, he ran the HURL Elkhorn 50 mile and came in third.
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UM senior and long distance runner Milton Zhinin-Barreto runs down the “M” trail Wednesday night as part of his training for an upcoming marathon. After riding his bike for 145 miles from Helena to Missoula last summer, he ran the Missoula Marathon in three hours and 10 minutes, qualifying for the Boston Marathon. “It’s rare you can say that you run 100 miles for fun,” Zhinin-Barreto said. Zhinin-Barreto doesn’t look at the mapped route of the run or the elevation levels of the trail before the race. “It gets stressful,” he said. “It’s more of an adventure if you don’t know anything.” Last year, he showed up to run 58 miles through the Bob Marshall Wilderness with two hard-boiled eggs and an orange. He hadn’t looked at a map prior to the run and didn’t realize there would be an almost 10,000 foot gain in elevation. After 11 hours of running, he was starving. Zhinin-Barreto joined a local running group, the Saturday Breakfast Club, which meets at 8 a.m. on Saturdays at the Runner’s Edge in downtown Missoula. At the end of the runs or walks, based on the level of the group, breakfast is served. “I’ll do anything for food,” Zhinin-Barreto said. “Like running twice for ice cream.” Zhinin-Barreto’s group consists of 15 runners. He said it’s better to run with someone and be accountable. The people in his group have a great pace and hold fun conversations, which makes the runs more enjoyable. Babak Rastgoufard formed a friendship with Zhinin-Barreto after they participated in the same races. They push each other to keep going, Rastgoufard said. He said Zhinin-Barreto has a lot of energy and enthusiasm while running. He does well on the uphills and loves the scenery. “You have to have some level of enjoyment to run that far,” Rastgoufard said. “He’s always a character.”
Zhinin-Barreto’s training routine doesn’t consist of a strict diet. He eats whatever he wants, mainly kale, based on his slogan, “bitches love kale.” On the morning of a 100-mile race day, Zhinin-Barreto will eat a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. Every 13 miles during the race are aid stations. For lunch, on the run, he’ll have a pancake and then sausage for dinner. The only time you walk during a 100mile race is to eat or pee yourself, he said. Zhinin-Barreto experienced his first injury last year during a 100-mile race—a blister. He also puked for the first time and saw a baby grizzly bear. “It was the best year—I could’ve died,” he said. “I feel like I was waiting for that all my life.” This year Zhinin-Barreto, has spent over $1,000 on races, including the Bear 100 in Utah, the Bighorn 100 in the Bighorn National Forest and the HURL Elkhorn 50. His goal is to run the Hardrock Endurance Run in Silverton, Colorado. The 100mile race has a total elevation change of almost 68,000 feet between Ouray Peak and Handies Peak. “It’s one of the hardest in the world,” Zhinin-Barreto said. “All this work for the most painful race ever.” Kanye West keeps him going though. When Zhinin-Barreto runs, it’s like West is talking to him. He can relate to the lyrics and the profanity. “His shit keeps me going,” he said. Zhinin-Barreto teaches K-12 Spanish and math, takes 18 credits at UM, works part time at the Good Food Store, volunteers at the Missoula International School and still finds time to run. He said if he can do it, anyone can. Just don’t give up. ▪
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The other vice: caffeine Story by Rylan Boggs
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P
eople tend to pick up bad habits in college. Maybe it’s the sense of freedom. Maybe it’s the stress. Hell, maybe people are just having a good time. While we hear plenty about the risks of drugs, sex and alcohol, one of the vices that gets frequently overlooked is caffeine dependency. The most commonly used mood-al-
tering drug in the world is caffeine, according to a Johns Hopkins study on caffeine dependency. Coffee is a great way to start the day, and once someone has had their first cup, it’s normal to keep drinking to ward off the inevitable crash. The all-day caffeine bender keeps people up and cuts into sleep cycles, making people groggy
and despondent the next morning, and then the cycle starts again. Caffeine, like most substances, isn’t that bad for you in small doses. It’s when people begin to rely on it that side effects, like fatigue, tremors, insomnia, increased anxiety and panic attacks, begin to manifest themselves. Adult caffeine consumers drink
about 280 milligrams (roughly three 6-ounce cups) of coffee per day. Thirty milligrams a day can alter mood and behavior, and 100 milligrams can lead to physical dependence, according to the Johns Hopkins study. Regular high consumption (750 to 1,200 milligrams) per day can produce a complete tolerance of caffeine, rendering the stimulant ineffective, the study said. Quitting cold turkey can cause withdrawal symptoms like headache, fatigue or drowsiness, depression and irritability, difficulty concentrating, nausea, vomiting, and muscle aches. Cutting back caffeine consumption is a difficult task. Tessa Leake, a 20-yearold sophomore and barista at the UC Market, has been trying to drink less coffee but struggles when she goes without. “I get a headache, or I just feel a little more foggy,” she said. “And it’s harder to pay attention in class.” Leake said she normally drinks three shots of espresso a day but is working on scaling back. In a society where caffeine dependency is so widely accepted, it’s difficult to not just pour a cup of coffee and give in to your body’s cravings. On campus, you can’t smoke a cigarette or buy a beer, but there are almost a dozen places to get coffee or energy drinks in and around the University. The most common caffeine-related issue the Curry Health Center sees is insomnia, according to laboratory scientist Karen Behan. The first thing they recommend for students having trouble sleeping is to cut back on caffeine. ▪
Tandoor in my tummy the Food Court’s newest vendor Rebecca Keith rebecca.keith@umontana.edu
Three meals a day in the food zoo can get old really fast. Luckily for students, Tandoor Express opened this month in the UC food court, serving “authentic Indian cuisine”. Tandoor Express offers a different kind of curry everyday, with one vegetable curry and two meat curries. They pick a recipe at random each morning. Due to this method, the food isn’t always consistent. The first time I ordered lunch the chicken curry was bland and a little dry. But the next time, the green-bean coconut curry and spinach chicken curry were both great.
If curry isn’t your thing, Tandoor Express always serves delicious appetizers including potato dumplings, chicken puffs and, of course, naan and mango lassi. Tandoor Express opened on March 3. Raju Roy, the head cook, said they import all of their spices from India and everything else they buy from stores in Missoula. The UC counter is the restaurant’s only location. Whether or not you enjoy your meal at Tandoor Express depends on what they decide to make that day. Not every recipe will be the best, but they will always have something new to try. ▪
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Two students choose what curry they want for lunch on March 22, 2016 at the Tandoor Express. They usually serve two types of meat curry and a vegetable curry, along with chicken puffs and potato dumplings.